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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by merb on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:42PM (#16525250)
> The corporations whose large profits and zero taxes annoy people are the online giants.

well SAP is probably one of them, but I never heard that somebody is annoyed by their tax policy. I never heard anything said against them and I'm pretty sure that they follow the same scheme than Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

(P.S. I'm german)

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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by pavlov on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#16525295)
Where do you get that? SAP's 2017 financial statement says the company paid 970 million euros in income tax on a profit of about 5 billion €:

https://www.sap.com/integrated-reports/2017/en/primary-conso...

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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by TomMarius on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:51AM (#16528065)
Yes, but (mostly, except for VAT) in Germany, not in the countries where they sold the software.
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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by pavlov on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:16AM (#16528339)
AFAIK, most of SAP's business goes through local resellers and consultants. They pay taxes in their countries.

The iPhone App Store is a completely different animal from SAP's consulting-heavy sales model, and it seems understandable that the EU commission is interested only in the former.

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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by TomMarius on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:02AM (#16528879)
Then it was a wrong metaphor in the first place. You're right.
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